The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death

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Página 178 These were the initial steps by which the Government sought to repel the attempt
of the rebel Confederacy to overthrow its authority by force of arms. Its action was
at that time wholly defensive. The declarations of rebel officials, as well as the ...

Página 187 Officers of the Federal Army and Navy had resigned in great numbers; and of
those resigning, a large proportion had taken up arms against the Government.
Simultaneously, and in connection with all this, the purpose to sever the Federal
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Página 188 ... to provision the fort; and that, if the attempt should not be resisted, there would
be no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition, without further notice, or in
case of an attack upon the fort. This notice was accordingly given; whereupon
188 ...

Página 189 Then and thereby the assailants of the Government began the conflict of arms,
without a gun in sight, or in expectancy to return their fire, save only the few in the
fort, sent to that harbor years before for their own protection, and still ready to give
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Página 193 ... take up arms against the Government the day after some assemblage of men
have enacted the farcical pretence of taking their State out of the Union, who
could have been brought to no such thing the day before. This sophism derives
much ...

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Página 258 - States ; and the fact that. any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...

Página 260 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.

Página 162 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...

Página 50 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...

Página 258 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...

Página 258 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...

Página 358 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.

Página 251 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.

Página 229 - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.

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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death